Donegal Green
#115500
A green that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#115500
RGB
17, 85, 0
OKLCh
39.3% 0.128 140.7°
CIELAB (D50)
31.0, -33.1, 36.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.3; on black, Lc -12.0. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 15.4 and 15.0 and 49.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.04:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.32:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.04:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#115500
protanopia
#515100 · ΔE00 15.4
deuteranopia
#494906 · ΔE00 15.0
tritanopia
#3e3e8b · ΔE00 49.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPharmacy Green at ΔE00 1.156: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pharmacy GreenΔE00 1.156 · #005500
- GreeeeeeenΔE00 1.336 · #005300
- Lincoln GreenΔE00 1.367 · #195905
- ForestΔE00 1.426 · #0b5509
- Duck HuntΔE00 1.479 · #005800
- Jungle JamΔE00 2.283 · #115511
- Patch of LandΔE00 2.357 · #225511
- Malachite GreenΔE00 2.536 · #004e00
- Deep GreenΔE00 2.555 · #02590f
- Swamp MonsterΔE00 2.953 · #005511
- Thuja GreenΔE00 3.91 · #11610f
- Kabocha GreenΔE00 3.979 · #044a05
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.